水火

Chinese

	water; river	fire; angry; fierce fire; angry; fierce; fiery; thriving
trad. (水火)	水	火
simp. ^#(水火)	水	火
anagram	火水

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shuǐhuǒ

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄏㄨㄛˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi² fo²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chúi-hé / chúi-hér / chúi-hóe / chúi-hóⁿ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shuǐhuǒ [Phonetic: shuíhuǒ]
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄏㄨㄛˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shuěihuǒ
  - Wade–Giles: shui³-huo³
  - Yale: shwěi-hwǒ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shoeihuoo
  - Palladius: шуйхо (šujxo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ xu̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: seoi² fo²
  - Yale: séui fó
  - Cantonese Pinyin: soey² fo²
  - Guangdong Romanization: sêu² fo²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯³⁵ fɔː³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chúi-hé
  - Tâi-lô: tsuí-hé
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zuy'hea
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ he⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chúi-hér
  - Tâi-lô: tsuí-hér
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sui⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hə⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chúi-hóe
  - Tâi-lô: tsuí-hué
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zuy'hoea
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hue⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chúi-hóⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: tsuí-hónn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zuy'hvor
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hɔ̃⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sui⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hɔ̃⁵⁵⁴/

Middle Chinese: sywijX xwaX

Rime
Character	水	火
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	脂 (18)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	式軌切	呼果切
Baxter	sywijX	xwaX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕˠiuɪ^X/	/huɑ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕʷᵚi^X/	/huɑ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕiuɪ^X/	/xuɑ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕjwi^X/	/hwa^X/
Li Rong	/ɕjui^X/	/xuɑ^X/
Wang Li	/ɕwi^X/	/xuɑ^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɕwi^X/	/xuɑ^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shuǐ	huǒ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	seoi²	fo²

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*s.turʔ [qʷʰ]ˤəjʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷljilʔ qʰʷaːlʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	水	火
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shuǐ	huǒ
Middle Chinese	‹ sywij^X ›	‹ xwa^X ›
Old Chinese	/s.turʔ/ (E dialect: -r > *-j)	/*[qʷʰ]ˁəjʔ/
English	water; river	fire
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	水	火
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	11948	5540
Phonetic component	水	火
Rime group	脂	歌
Rime subdivision	2	1
Corresponding MC rime	水	火
Old Chinese	/*qʰʷljilʔ/	/*qʰʷaːlʔ/

Noun

水火

(literally) fire and water
(figurative) opposites; diametrically opposing things
(figurative) extreme misery; state of severe suffering

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (水火):

→ Japanese: 水(すい)火(か) (suika)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
水	火
すい Grade: 1	か Grade: 1
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) すいか [súꜜìkà] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
IPA^(key): [sɨika̠]

Noun

水(すい)火(か) • (suika) ^{←すいくわ (suikwa)^?}

water and fire
Synonym: 火水 (kasui; himizu)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[DJR-1] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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